Amy’s folks and brother were in town last week and we spent a few days at Pacific City. No surf…well Sunday it was about 3 feet, so I paddled out, but otherwise it was flat. All 105 pictures are here. If you don’t like ’em, don’t blame me. Jeff is responsible!
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Truman’s favorite poems
Tru’s got a bedtime routine. It generally goes like this: bath, jammies, two or three books of his choosing (more on this another time), and then off to bed for a couple more stories that I make up about dinosaurs or other adventures starring him. I started reading him some stuff that I remember being read when I was a kid and two poems have become favorites: Beautiful Soup and The Jumblies. No matter what other story I tell, he usually wants to hear both of these. Beautiful Soup always sends him into fits of laughter–probably because of my falsetto duing the refrain. And he often recites the refrain of The Jumblies as I’m saying it.
Donut Derelicts
Here’s my Father’s Day present from Tru! He got me this sweet t-shirt because I coveted it in a catalog earlier in the year. So sweet of a 2-year old to notice such things… 🙂
Tabbrowser extensions
If you use FireFox (and you probably should), you will want the Tabbrowser extensions. I updated my browser to version 0.9 and lost my extensions in the process. Most of them I could live without, but the tabbrowser extensions is a must have. It gives you better control over the tab behavior.
An oldie but goodie
Just ran across an old picture of Tru. Figured everyone might dig it…again.
DMOZ
Hey, I just got notified that my application to be an editor in the dmoz.org project has been accepted. I’ve sent in four or five applications over the past four years or so. The first few applications were rejected outright–I think they were for the human resources or organizational development categories. Last month I applied for the financial aid category and was told that the category was too broad for a newbie editor and that I should consider something a little more narrowly focused. Hey, nothing’s more narrowly focused than Newberg, right? 🙂 So I applied to be the editor of the “Regional: North America: United States: Oregon: Localities: N: Newberg: Business and Economy” category. And now I am. See for yourself at the bottom of this page.
Next on my ToDo list is world domination.
Salt and Light
So, I’m reading Tricia’s new book and generally enjoying it. It’s leading me in all sorts of interesting directions–some new, some familiar. Stringfellow (and here) is one of the new directions. Eberhard Arnold is one of the familiar ones. Arnold’s book Salt and Light is just fantastic. You can get a free version as a pdf here.
Proven in the Northwest
Man, I wish I could make it to this…
7 p.m. Friday, June 4, Hollywood Theater
Hammersurf, a Northwest surfboard company, put out a call for original footage featuring surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Ten films were selected to screen at “Proven in the Northwest,” a benefit for Skaters for Portland Skateparks. Look for “O.T.” which chronicles a group of over-30 skate rats from Portland. The friends began skating plywood halfpipes in the 1980s, and the film captures their trajectories from skate punks to responsible fathers and husbands who still skate.Hollywood Theater
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
503-803-4668
$5-$7PS- Don’t forget the after-party.
Drop me on
Tru’s figuring out how to navigate the mess that is the English language. The other day he told me that mama could drop him off at daycare and I could drop him on. Makes perfect sense, eh? I remember when my nephew, Benjamin, used to refer to yesterday as “lasterday.” This is a super fun stage–I’ll try to regularly record the funny things Tru comes up with.
A few new pics
Slapped up a few new pics of Tru this evening. His “aunt Amy” came to see him over the long weekend and they had some fun together–the pics are kinda lame, so you’ll have to take my word for it. Tru, unfortunately, got some fever-thing going during the weekend. He went as high as 104°. He was mostly lethargic, punctuated by his usual rowdy self whenever the Motrin broke through. I don’t think the fever had anything to do with aunt Amy, but who knows. I heard she made boys feverish back in the day–maybe she’s still got the mojo. 😀
There are also a couple of pictures of our new purple door. We’re too cheap to buy real paint for the front door, so we used leftover floor paint from the upstairs. Yeah, that’s right. We’ve got a purple floor upstairs.